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Silkworm Products

We offer a wide selection of silkworm products, from live silkworms to silkworm eggs and everything needed to keep them fat and happy. Silkworm food is a must, silkworms will only eat a mulberry based diet!

Hornworm Products

Hornworms are offered in our exclusive "Hornworm Pod" which will contain the live hornworms and food. Due to the nature of this worm we are unable to offer these in any other manner. Extra hornworm diet can also be purchased.p>

Free Shipping Items

We offer a wide selection of products that have free shipping included in the price! The items listed in this section will ship free of charge, however only these items are eligable. If you add other items to the order you will be billed shipping only on the items that do not include free shipping in the price. There are many good deals here for some of our most popular items.

Tortoise Food

We offer a wide selection of tortoise foods, if we sell it we use it! Food is offered in bulk packing by the pound or full 25 lb bags. Dont forget to order some cactus, treat your tortoises to the best foods!

Need Help?

Here you will find owners manuals and install instructions along with videos on how to use our products. If you need support please feel free to email or call us after you have reviewed the material here that will answer the most common asked questions.

Videos

Silkworm Keeper Setup Instructions

Silkworm Keeper Setup For Live Silkworms

Place the large plastic screen flat with the bottom of the plastic keeper box. The screen should fit snug to the sides and overlap slightly. Remove the live silkworms from the shipping cup and place on top of the screen in the keeper. Only 100 silkworms per keeper are recommended. This will allow for waste to fall through while keeping the silkworms separated. Caretaker can then easily do bed changes by pulling out the screen with the silkworms on top, and dumping the frass (worm poop) from the bottom of the container in the trash.

Silkworm Keeper Setup For Silkworm Eggs

If you’re starting from silkworm eggs do not use the screen at this time. After the eggs have hatched, dump the petri dish of newly hatched worms and food into the bottom of the keeper without the screen. Continue to feed per the instructions on the eggs. When ready for the first cleaning, places the screen over the top of the silkworms. Using the food grater, grate fresh food lightly over the screen using the large grate size. Allow 24 hrs to pass, the majority of the silkworms will crawl up through the screen on to the new food. You can then pull the screen out, to separate the silkworms from the waste. Remove the waste, clean the keeper and place the screen with the silkworms back inside.

General Care & Tips

Feed worms daily, remove waste as needed, the less handling of the worms the better. The silkworm keeper can be reused, clean with 1/10 bleach solution before next use. Keeper screens can also be replaced, see website to order extra replacements. You can use the flap lids on the keeper to keep food from drying out by closing for 2 hours after feeding. Do not keep closed, other side the lids should always remain open for best results. Avoid direct sunlight and direct over head heating sources.